Pierce: “That’s when the league was real. ‘Look, I’m fixing to go this way, I’m going to pull up, and we’re fixing to get up on out of here.’ You were telling him what you were about to do.”
Jackson: “I wish I would’ve been there the year you were talking to Al and drained it after you whispered like 30 sweet-nothings to him. That’s what you were known for to people who really knew hoop.” If it’s the biggest game, I’m gonna drop 40. You embraced, Give me the ball at the end, and I’m gonna to make this motherf-ing shot. To me, you’re one of the top five closer, clutch motherf-ing players of all-time.
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I had some big games and intense series versus Indiana.”īarnes: “I think you hit it on the head, because it was pre-social media. I ended up in a close-out game versus Iverson and had 46 in that one. I had some big playoff games that the social media era don’t even know about. People think Paul Pierce just started playing in the playoffs. You ready? Three, two, one, nothing you can do about it.’ You know? Ask Al Harrington. ‘Hey, I’m fixing to shoot this right in your face. “You hear these tales about Larry Bird, like, ‘Hey, I’m coming down here, and I’m fixing to shoot the three right in your face.’ Well, our generation, that was Paul Pierce. “Part of trash-talking is backing it up, and I would say level of trash-talking is about the doing and him telling you what he’s about to do,” future Celtics teammate Kevin Garnett, who along with Tony Allen later called Pierce the best trash-talker they ever played with or against, said later in a recap of Pierce’s dagger. Pierce finished off the Pacers at home two games later with a 27-8-4 that polished off the playoff upset. I did all I could do because I fouled him and he still made the shot. Here I come, here I come.’ And it didn’t do nothing because he made that three.
“I was down in my stance,” Harrington added in the postgame, “and he said: ‘That ain’t gonna do nothing. That shot gave the Celtics a 73-62 lead en route to a 10-point win. He took the step-back shot and I just couldn’t get to it.” “I was saying, ‘I’m ready, bring it.’ I was hoping he drove. “He was just saying, ‘I hope you’re ready,’” he told reporters in the aftermath of an ultimate defeat. “That's what playoff basketball is all about, two guys competing at the highest level.”
They went with a real hooper for the first episode but plan to enlist social-media haters for the other installments.“I was caught up in the moment,” Pierce said afterward, forgetting exactly what he said to Harrington in the heat of battle. He came within a point of winning before Brown rallied with two straight points for a 7-6 win.Īnd to be fair to Moore, he wasn’t an actual trash-talker to Brown on Twitter. Though Brown predicted that she was going to win 7-0, Moore put forth a solid effort. Brown used a WNBA ball while Moore used a men’s basketball during his turn. The rules of the game were simple: All makes were worth one point, four dribbles allowed and first to seven wins. In the first edition of The Hoop State Network’s She Nice! series on YouTube, Brown took on former men’s Division II basketball player Darius Moore in a game of one-on-one. But rarely does the trash talk ever get settled on an actual basketball court.įor Minnesota Lynx guard Lexie Brown, she was given that opportunity. WNBA players are no strangers to men on the internet criticizing the quality of their sport.
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